[OPEN/CLOSED] A Robin came a-knockin’

[robintohood]

Who: Jason Todd robintohood and you
What: Jason’s been deaged back to his early Robin years. Antics ensue. Also contains one special closed prompt
When: January 3rd-4thish, during the age swap event
Where: Central City
Content Warnings: None for now. Will edit if needed.

[Somewhere in Central City is a small boy in a red, yellow, and green costume. It’s hard to forget someone in a colorful suit like that.

That is, assuming you can catch a good enough look at him. He’s effortlessly using his grappling gun and parkour skills to swing around and jump rooftops. You might see him as he tries to get a lay of the land.

Alternatively, you might see him fearlessly (or recklessly, depending on how you look at it) pounce right on top of a would-be armed mugger. He might not know where he is but that doesn’t mean he’s going to stop fighting crime. It’s what any good sidekick would do.]

Attic Safehouse above the Descendant Bar (Closed to people who use the safehouse)

[Later that night, Robin is exhausted but isn’t ready to trust just any place to rest for the night. For now, he’s just perched on top of the Descendant, near the attic window]

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[robintohood]

[In a cheerful tone]

You don't need to worry about me. I can take care of myself!

[And hopefully he can find Batman soon]

How about you? How are the guilds treating you?

[welcome_summer]

You know who're the most suspicious? People telling me not to worry!

[She stomps her foot at his glib comment. A city like this could gobble a kid on their own up. She's heard stories and all!

When he mentions the guild, she frowns deeper, hand partially covering her mouth.]

It's been fine. A lot of the local heroes are gone, so they're mad at whoever did this. They called me here from the town I woke up in to run tests. After all the poking and prodding, all they can say is it's magic, what's happened.

[robintohood]

That's it? And where're you from?

[welcome_summer]

That's it. "It's magic. It's wearing off but it'll be a while." [She huffs again.] There are normal people in Sunset Falls who knew that much, but they're around magic all the time....

[Mayuko decides to risk it for the energy biscuit. A narrow dark tendril, sans sparkles, creeps from the back of her calf, down her leg, along the roof and over the edge.

While she's doing that, she's pulled out a notepad and started writing. There was one address in her contingency letter that might be useful.]

I'm from Tokyo. It's funny because you're speaking English, right? I can understand you as if you were speaking Japanese. Not just you, either, everyone. And everyone's understood me.

[robintohood]

[Jason's watching Mayuko's powers with interest]

Weird. I just figured you're talking in English. I can't tell you're speaking anything else.

[welcome_summer]

[It takes willpower to not stand more in front of the trailing tendril. She's not doing anything wrong! Just checking on the mugger!]

Oh no, I do well enough for English class, but in a real conversation? It would be a trainwreck. Must be more magic....

[She finishes writing on her notepad and tears out the page.]

Here. You might have things sorted out, but I saw an address on my phone. The guy this place belongs to is unaligned; he's not going to get on your case about... you know.

[robintohood]

[Frowning, Jason takes a look at the piece of paper Mayuko hands him]

What makes you so sure?

[welcome_summer]

He seems to respect people with conviction. No matter their age. Besides, if I didn't trust him, his contact info would have been trashed long ago.

[The sounds of a vehicle draws Mayuko's attention back to the street. It seems a police cruiser has finally arrived.]

Use it as you will, little hero.

[robintohood]

[Jason nods, still frowning. He carefully tucks the paper away and then takes out his grappling gun. This is turning out bigger than he expected]

Thanks again.

[Jason fires his gun up to a rooftop and zips off before the police arrive]